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It's undoubtedly a setback to Trump's plans to replace Obamacare . Demonstrators with Utah's Disabled Rights A. Mitch McConnell may be Washington's master political tactician, but the Senate majority leader's failure to bring an " Obamacare " repeal bill across the finish line appears as a rare and costly miscalculation.

After the altercation, viral social media posts naming Patel as a child predator created so much trouble for him that he had to temporarily leave the neighborhood with his family out of fear for his safety. When asked by the station whether he believes the victim was trying to do a good thing, the girl's father was clear in his response. Police said in a statement the man was "a good Samaritan".

That's not happened before in the county, district officials said. There were also fewer F schools. They said Duval had more "A" schools, 41, than last year's 28, and 89 percent of its schools reached an "A, B, or C", up from 75 percent last year.

Five senior Senate Democrats , including Minority Leader Chuck Schumer , sent a letter to Republican leaders on Monday that called for "continuing the parity principle" of equal increases for both defense and domestic spending, which was the basis for spending deals during the Obama administration.

The Weather Channel is describing the Brian Head Fire as the largest active wildfire in the U.S. On Tuesday, authorities evacuated additional homes and cabins near the site of a wildfire, which has burned more than 77 square miles near the ski town of Brian Head.

Passengers evacuate from a train in the dark following a subway train incident in the Manhattan borough of New York , United States June 27, 2017, in this still image taken from a video obtained from social media. Two cars in the Brooklyn-bound A train careened off the tracks after the emergency brake was activated. "It was travelling at a normal pace when suddenly, it was like a horse that rears, it has been cast in the top, bottom, all sides", said a traveler to NY 1.

Sizzling heat is exacerbating the fire risks out West, where tired crews have been battling blazes in Utah, Nevada, Oregon and California. Authorities ordered more evacuations at the fire that has torched more than 67 square miles (174 square kilometers) in preparation for winds and low humidity that could push fire growth north after calmer weather kept its growth in check over the weekend.

Highway 69 is closed at Mayer. On Monday night, Wildfire Today reported , the fire was 4,400 acres and had spread to 12,000 by 2:40 p.m. Tuesday. Firefighters are establishing a perimeter around Mayer, a town of 1,400 residents. On Tuesday, the danger to Mayer was highlighted by a C-130 airtanker's slurry drops between Mayer and the advancing front of the fire. The Goodwin Fire has burned 940 acres in the Bradshaw Ranger District of the Prescott National Forest , according to the ...

The Republican lawyer also claimed Mr Sanders' office convinced the bank to lend the funds. The FBI has not confirmed the existence of such an investigation, but copious reporting and Sanders's own remarks suggest they are investigating something .

Annual PILT payments are calculated based on each county's acres of federal land and population. You can view a complete list of how much individual counties will receive HERE. The payments are Wyoming's share of the record $464.6 million distributed nationwide this year, the largest amount ever allocated in the PILT program's 40-year history.

The Swiss top seed survived a break point in the opening game of the second set and then moved 4-2 ahead before taking his first championship point with a backhand volley. Both players have been in exceptional form this year with Federer winning his 18Grand Slam while Zverev won his first Masters 1000 title at Rome. Gasquet would take the first set, but once again Zverev would show his resiliency by coming back to win, and reach the final for the second year in a row.

A federal judge today denied bond for the Canadian man accused of stabbing a Flint airport police officer in the neck last week. Ftouhi, of Montreal, would be held by U.S. Ftouhi yelled "Allahu Akbar" - "Allah is the greatest" - before making the attack, according to an affidavit. Investigators have not said what brought Ftouhi to Flint.

Senate leaders do not believe they have the votes to pass the bill as it is with a group of Republicans along with all Democrats in the Senate opposed to it. According to the CBO report , the Senate bill would result in 49 million people lacking health coverage by 2026 - 22 million more than would have been uninsured under Obamacare.

The travel ban restricts travel from six Muslim-majority countries in the Middle East and North Africa. "The Trump administration has said this is a great win", said Bauer. Iran has denounced the recent US Supreme Court ruling allowing President Donald Trump's contentious Muslim ban to be partly reinstated , saying the United States is turning a blind eye to the real culprits behind acts of terror on its soil.

Three years ago, a Ten Commandments monument at Oklahoma's Capitol was smashed in a similar way after a driver crashed his vehicle into it. The Commandments were erected Tuesday morning, and the ACLU of Arkansas says it will sue for the monument's removal.

They can also seek review from the 7th Circuit of the United States or the United States Supreme Court . As in most cases on voluntariness of confessions, relevant factors point in conflicting directions. A spokesman for Wisconsin's attorney general says an appeals court erred in affirming that a confession was improperly obtained from Brendan Dassey in a criminal case featured in the Netflix series " Making a Murderer ".

Waikato University student Sarah Thomson said outside the High Court at Wellington on Monday: "I feel a lot of people have their hopes on this, because a lot of people want to see change". In her preliminary statement of defence, Bennett has denied that the New Zealand government needs to set a target that strengthens the global response to climate change to hold warming to "well below" 2C, with an aim of 1.5C, as stipulated by the Paris Agreement.

Fifteen hundred people have been evacuated from areas of concern, according to Joseph Doherty, a spokesperson for the Utah Division of Emergency Management. "I'm issuing today's declaration to make sure they have every resource needed to do their jobs and protect our communities". That fire was sparked yesterday by a vehicle crash.

We have been meeting with potential people who may be of service to this administration. "I have not sat down and asked him about his specific reaction to them, so I'd be glad to touch base and get back to you", Spicer said. The briefing wasn't originally scheduled but was added to the White House agenda on Tuesday morning. " Sean Spicer is doing multiple jobs, communications director, press secretary, etc".

Although about 175 people who live near Panguitch Lake were allowed to briefly return to their homes Sunday. High winds and intense dry temperatures are making it more likely that officials will see extreme fire behavior in the days ahead. Another California wildfire, sparked by a traffic accident on a remote stretch of a highway 80 miles east of Los Angeles, grew to more than nine square miles (23 sq.

Around 5:30 p.m., the National Weather Service reported severe thunderstorms near the Swan Falls Dam had created 60 miles per hour wind gusts and blowing dust, reducing visibility to near zero. Tuesday: Partly cloudy, scattered showers and thunderstorms, low humidity. Afternoon showers and thunderstorms. Sunny, with a high near 102. Mostly cloudy with showers and thunderstorms.

Senate Majority Lead, Mitch McConnell says there will not be a bote on Healthcare this week. Do we close and make people drive 50 miles to a bigger city? Both the House and the Senate have different health care bills. "The Senate draft before us includes some promising changes to reduce premiums in the individual insurance market, but I continue to have real concerns about the Medicaid policies in this bill, especially those that impact drug treatment at a time when OH is facing an opioid ...

The White House lambasted the nonpartisan budget office in a statement , saying it has a "history of inaccuracy" projecting coverage. All Democrats oppose it. It also would eliminate $700 billion worth of taxes over a decade, largely on wealthier people and medical companies - money that Obama's law used to expand coverage.

The GOP , however, is aware it could only afford to lose two votes but six Republican senators said they will not support the legislation in its present form, Time reported . After the vote was delayed, three Republican senators - Jerry Moran of Kansas, Rob Portman of OH and Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia - announced opposition to the current bill .

US Senate Republican leaders have delayed the vote on repealing and replacing Obamacare until after next week's Fourth of July holiday due to a lack of party support. In order for a bill to become law, it needs to pass both the House and the Senate and be signed by the president. Less affluent Americans now on government-managed Medicaid insurance, many of whom supported the president, will see a 26% reduction in their programmes funding over the next decade, resulting in fewer ...

The CNN story in question was removed from CNN .com last week and replaced with an editor's note that explained: "On June 22, 2017 , CNN .com published a story connecting Anthony Scaramucci with investigations into the Russian Direct Investment Fund ".

The federal deficit would decrease by $321 billion as the result of a $772 billion cut to Medicaid. The Congressional Budget Office released an analysis of the Senate's version of the legislation earlier this week that said more than 22 million Americans would lose their health insurance should the bill pass in its current form.

A possible active shooter has been reported on Redstone Arsenal near the Sparkman Center . All of Redstone's perimeter gates have been closed, and staff members have been told to shelter in place, Hanson said. "We did have initial reports of someone hearing shots fired and someone seeing a weapon", Holliday said. "The safety and security of our workforce remains our top priority", Redstone Arsenal posted .

Supreme Court ruled Monday that the state of Missouri wrongly denied a church funds for a school playground. Chief Justice John Roberts said for the court that the state violated the U.S. "We do not address religious uses of funding or other forms of discrimination", which may limit the scope of the ruling. In a weird footnote that likely highlights brewing philosophical fights behind the scenes, the court even went out of its way to say the case was just about "playground ...

By a statement, Danish shipping AP Moller-Maersk, which operates a JNPT section, said the malware caused flaws in its computer system last night. It said, "We are responding to the situation to contain and limit the impact and uphold operations".

A similar explosive was removed from the trunk of the auto Gathercole was driving when authorities say he fired on the Kansas trooper with an AK-47 rifle. The investigation of the AK-47 Bandit bank robbery series is being conducted by the Chino Police Department; the Rexburg Police Department; the Musselshell County Sheriff's Department in Montana; the Seattle Safe Streets Task Force; the King County Sheriff's Office in Washington; the Vacaville Police Department; the Sacramento Police ...

He told me he hadn't read it yet. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks at the U.S. Capitol on June 20. "I need to understand really what we're talking about, with some of the conclusions that we saw yesterday with the CBO score", she told MSNBC.

Trump also said he will be working with India to create jobs in both countries and to grow economies of the two countries. Wake up: "the most important PM of the world is coming", is how Prime Minister Narendra Modi's forthcoming visit to Israel, the first by an Indian premier, is described in an article in one of the leading Israeli business daily.

After five days of deliberations, the jury found Officer Jeronimo Yanez not guilty of all counts in the July 2016 shooting of Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, a suburb of St. Five of those bullets hit him. Castile's girlfirend, Diamond Reynolds, was in the auto at the time and began live-streaming the event in the moments after the shots were fired.

The fight over funding stems from a messy budget-setting process that required a special session to finish up. It was not until he saw that the $130-million, two-year legislative appropriation was set off on its own in a larger funding bill - "kind of an inviting target", he said - and his administration calculated the long-term cost of the tax cuts lawmakers approved - about $5 billion over the next decade - that he started thinking seriously about nixing the funding.

Meteorologists expect a band of showers and thunderstorms to develop this morning, but scattered showers and storms will remain throughout the day. The Gulf Coast was still suffering from the effects of Cindy, a former tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico that crawled ashore early Thursday near the Louisiana-Texas state line.

High temperatures will warm up to the upper 80s. Expect highs in the mid to upper 80s today with low again in the 60s. More widespread showers and storms are possible on Saturday as a cold front pushes through the Mid-South. Wed: High: 92 Low: 73 Mostly suny to partly cloudy, windy. Temperatures through the weekend will hover in the low to mid 80s. Morning lows are very warm in the lower 70s.

The prominent global human rights group urged the US Congress on Monday to nullify the top court's ruling that allows Trump's executive order to take effect until it hears arguments on the travel ban in October. Government lawyers were working on guidelines Tuesday, one day after the Supreme Court partially reinstated the ban ahead of hearing arguments in October.

The US Supreme Court has reversed the Arkansas Supreme Court's decision to deny same-sex married couples' right to be named on their children's birth certificates. It did not seem to matter that the gay couple was able to obtain their rainbow-themed cake for free from another nearby cake artist. "He lost almost 40 percent of his business based on what the Colorado courts did", she told me.

Trump tweeted that he is "very supportive" of the Senate bill . The Senate legislation resembles a bill the House approved in May that the budget office said would result in 23 million additional Americans without coverage by 2026. It would also reshape federal health care subsidies for people buying individual policies and eliminate taxes on wealthier people and medical companies that Obama's law used to expand coverage.

All it clearly indicates is that McConnell and the Republican leadership weren't confident they'd have the votes by the end of this week. Whether or not one believes the forecast for the Senate bill, it is a serious obstacle to getting 50 Republicans to vote for the Senate bill.

Bernie Sanders delivered a short speech on the floor of the Senate that warns of what is to come from the GOP's proposed health care plan, and impending changes to President Obama's Affordable Health Care Act. Don't make too much of the news that Sen. It also listed a $1 million bequest as money that it would receive in the next four years, even though the donor giving it had only promised the money after her death.

The Supreme Court's decision lifted the stay to the extent that refugees who do not have a bona fide relationship to a person or an entity in the United State will be subject to the ban . The United States President Donald Trump has said, the Supreme court's ruling which partially reinstates his travel ban is a clear victory for the USA national security.

Palin, who emerged on the national political scene as running mate to John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign, is seeking damages in an amount to be determined by a jury at trial. Palin", the attorneys said. "In fact, none mentioned Mrs. Palin or acknowledged that Mrs. Palin did not incite a deranged man to commit murder", the lawsuit states.

They say Maduro, who became president in 2013 following the death of longtime leader Hugo Chavez , is a dictator, who has presided over a deep economic crisis. On Tuesday, Maduro said the "destruction" of Venezuela would unleash a refugee wave dwarfing the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean. "What we really want as a political party is that Venezuelans have the option to express through voting, not through violence".

The House failed to advance a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare in late March, and it was seen as a spectacular failure on the GOP's most persistent pledge to voters for the past seven years. The payments are part of the Affordable Care Act, and they flow to insurers on behalf of low-income marketplace customers to cover their out-of-pocket health expenses.

A nonpartisan group representing Republican and Democratic state officials who administer Medicaid programs says the GOP health care legislation advancing toward a Senate vote will not work. However, the bill would reduce the budget deficit by a total of $321bn (£252bn) in 2017-2026, the non-partisan Congressional Budgetary Office said.

Democrats in both chambers of Congress are exhibiting their unity as the Republican health care bill vote, which was supposed to happen by Friday in the Senate , was pushed back until after the July 4 recess. Lee, another second-term Republican, reiterated his longstanding criticism that the Senate bill included "hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts for the affluent, bailouts for insurance companies, and subsidies for lower-income Americans".

The White House statement gave Assad a stark warning that if the regime launched another chemical weapons attack , "he and his military will pay a heavy price". But a USA official says the Russians have also used the launches to calibrate the targeting radars that could be used to bring down tomahawk missiles.

Trump has called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to hold back on settlement building as he seeks to build momentum. Despite worldwide opposition to Israeli settlement construction, which is illegal under global law, ground was broken at the site of the proposed Amichai settlement, which is meant to accommodate settlers who the Israeli High Court evicted from the illegal Amona outpost earlier this year.